First of all those you think official ICS update is awesome can close this thread for those who are interested to know why it SUCKS and how HTC really blew it read below
Almost 1 month ago when the update was available on Elevate XDA and non XDA members found some annoying bugs and notified HTC. However, nothing was fixed and this half baked update was pushed to the devices...
1. Music app is completely f***ed up! Not only its slow as hell to change tracks its UI became useless. If you look at overall design scheme it seems like big buttons at the bottom (just like in GB) are available almost everywhere (main menu, email client, personalize selection area) but not here WHY? because this app wasn't finished.
2. Native widgets are not updated, if you check the version some of them still show 3.0 build numbers. Again they didn't optimize them. Music widget flashes each time you change the homescreen, calendar's agenda view is not updated, it refreshes each time you flip home screen
3. Camera app doesn't close properly. if you enabled auto-brightness and opened/closed the camera it still keeps highest brightness level (only fix is to lock/unlock the device)
4. Stupid spelling mistakes such as develop option , Last OTA update fixed all spelling errors expect this one
5. Lock screen wallpapers doesn't change when you set a custom one, ringtones dont play properly. UPDATE: After you manually set your ringtones this problem is fixed
Overall I'm really sad that they did this, I really thought HTC genuinely cares about quality and its customers.
When Sense 4.0 ROMs become stable and rock solid I'm going to flash my device and never expect something from HTC again
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While i agree there are a few bugs in ICS that need sorting, overall ICS on the Sensation is much better than Gingerbread.
No doudt HTC will sort out the bugs with a few small updates in the coming months.
@Pikabat, you’ve got a UK phone haven’t you? So you’ll only just have updated? Have you really given it enough time to give that sort of judgement? Besides the issue you’ve given aren’t life threatening are they? They sound like niggles. Apart from those issues does the phone run more smoothly? More responsive?
Pikabat said:
First of all those you think official ICS update is awesome can close this thread for those who are interested to know why it SUCKS and how HTC really blew it read below
Almost 1 month ago when the update was available on Elevate XDA and non XDA members found some annoying bugs and notified HTC. However, nothing was fixed and this half baked update was pushed to the devices...
1. Music app is completely f***ed up! Not only its slow as hell to change tracks its UI became useless. If you look at overall design scheme it seems like big buttons at the bottom (just like in GB) are available almost everywhere (main menu, email client, personalize selection area) but not here WHY? because this app wasn't finished.
2. Native widgets are not updated, if you check the version some of them still show 3.0 build numbers. Again they didn't optimize them. Music widget flashes each time you change the homescreen
3. Camera app doesnt close properly. if you enabled auto-brightness and opened/closed the camera it still keeps highest brightness level (only fix is to lock/unlock the device)
4. Stupid spelling mistakes such as develop option , aeroplan , airplane and aeroplane.... non capital letter in storage area personal data Was it so hard to find someone who can read and fix these grammatical errors?
5. Lock screen wallpapers doesn't change when you set a custom one, ringtones dont play properly.
Overall I'm really sad that they did this, I really thought HTC genuinely cares about quality and its customers.
When Sense 4.0 ROMs become stable and rock solid I'm going to flash my device and never expect something from HTC again
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I have not updated to ICS the official way, but I think I have (thanks to mike1986) what who updated waiting until the very end of march has.
I want to say that I am a little bit disappointed too, because of the "beta release" to the elevate members that became the final release to everyone even if it has some bugs.
But I didn't notice all the bugs you are mentioning and you didn't talk about a very annoying one I really hate...the browser.
These are the bugs I actually have:
1. there are stupid spelling mistakes in italian too, but the music player, widgets and lockscreen wallpapers work well;
2. Sometimes the autobrightess when you exit the camera app stays to the maximum (same thing happened with GB);
3. the most annoying one...the browser not opening links from other apps, but opening the last visited page at the first tap instead, forcing you to exit and re-tap the link to have finally it loaded (a flashable zip by liamsstears fixed this).
4. Multitouch switches touches between two fingers when one stays on the screen and the other taps somewhere else.
So, after the browser fix and SebastianFM kernel that fixes the multitouch, I can say I have a really nice, fast and stable ICS with Sense 3.6 on my Sensation, thanks to HTC releasing it and to developers on xda fixing the embarrassing bugs HTC left in.
Do a hard reset, works wonders to allowing the OTA to 'take' so to speak. Not had any of the issues you've experienced (except the glaring spelling mistakes, but HTC are already aware of them)
What updates..don't think there be any..HTC has a habit oaf this new phones comes pit the forget about the old ones. Guess its time to forget HTC.
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Do a hard reset, works wonders to allowing the OTA to 'take' so to speak. Not had any of the issues you've experienced (except the glaring spelling mistakes, but HTC are already aware of them)
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How come I don't see any of these spelling mistakes you people talk about? I mean I can't find "aerplane", where is it? And "Personal storage" is properly capitalized also.. I can only find "Develop option", but to be honest I'm not too sure that this really is a mistake, though english is not my native language. And widgets are fine too, including camera, no other issues also.
Is it possible that there were two OTA updates? One that was unfinished and was released by mistake, and the other one is 'final'?
I installed mine ICS through the official OTA way, followed it up with a hard reset and the only problems i share with you are the spelling mistakes....may it be worth doing one of these to see if it clears it up?
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I already did hard reset but issues are still there.
I listen to music on my phone very often that's why I know about all the small details and annoying things. Anyone knows another music app that I can use?
http://imgur.com/Ng7N8
Here is the mistake I'm talking about.
Yes I've upgraded today but I spent couple of hours to setup everything so I can pass judgement on the quality
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
As for the browser I use Dolphin HD so I'm not aware of any issues with that.
Also about blinking music widget. Try it and tell me of what you see.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
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http://imgur.com/Ng7N8
Here is the mistake I'm talking about.
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Mine looks fine, and as I said I don't see any mistakes like "Aerplane".
http://i42.tinypic.com/294ghzb.png
That is why I think there are two different OTA updates, any ideas?
http://imgur.com/a/0XAPi
Here are the screenshots.
As I said when you select custom wallpaper for lock screen it doesnt change. Cant take a picture of that but trust me its broken.
And 3 different writings for the same function
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
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Also about blinking music widget. Try it and tell me of what you see.
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What do you call blinking? The artist name updating?
Yes, but that's minor compared to the delay that happens every time you skip a track. I can hear an odd sound similar to the one that you hear when you unplug headphones. I dont know how else I can explain that one
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here are mine:
http://i39.tinypic.com/2iiv5kx.png
http://i43.tinypic.com/e7ggw4.png
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As I said when you select custom wallpaper for lock screen it doesnt change. Cant take a picture of that but trust me its broken.
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It seems that this specific thing is not working for me too. However there are no grammar mistakes hmm
Can you compare the software version page?
http://imgur.com/2D1gC
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
It is the same. How is this possible? Maybe HTC hasn't marked the beta version as beta before the leak so that there exist two different OTAs but with the same naming? I mean it would not be too surprising, after all, the unfinished final version wasn't supposed to be released at all.
My OTA update screens looked like this, earlier I did two screenshots of the updating process, just in case:
http://i41.tinypic.com/ick9b4.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2j6a1bn.jpg
I see that it differs (the size for example) from the early leaked one in this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1536630
However, I didn't do a reset after the update, but it shouldn't affect the GUI text, should it?
I have no idea what is going on here Maybe you are right. What is your cid btw?
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
The OTA is not beta, it's just a few spelling mistakes in certain locales - they'll sort it out eventually
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The OTA is not beta, it's just a few spelling mistakes in certain locales - they'll sort it out eventually
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Then how do you explain that some phones have spelling mistakes and others dont?
also can you tell me which music app are you using ?
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Hi guys,
You guys might think im a newbie because i got zero posts. ( We'll actually i got 1 post after this one. =D)
I've been using roms a couple of years. I've never been posting or requesting on XDA. So this will be my first time. My first android phone was a HTC HERO G2 Touch. At that point i was researching and trying out roms. I was totally inlove with Android. I've been a Iphone user. HTC Hero came with the stock version 2.1.
But then i found Cyanogenmod they've managed to get Gingerbread 2.3 on the Hero. I came more in love with Android. After using the HTC Hero G2 a year or so it became boring the phone is getting slower and i saw a couple of friends have a faster Android phone. Then the HTC ChaCha came out. I thought im gonna change a bit from touch to a keyboard + touch. The bad thing about it. It wasn't S-off but S-on so i couldn't unlock the bootloader. I've been using the HTC ChaCha a couple of months but like the HTC Hero it became boring. I couldnt change roms because it wasn't S-offed. I was waiting on HTCdev to release the unlocked bootloader. But then a friend of mine he asked me if i wanna buy his HTC Sensation for 200euro's. He used it for like four months. He wanted a Iphone 4S. So i thought it's sounds pretty attractive. So i bought it a month ago. I allready put a custom rom a while back while he used it. (the Android Revolution HD 3.6.1 when it came out). When i got the phone i updated it to the latest version back then. Off course i've tried the ICS rom of ARHD. I was blown away by the looks of it. Then i came across Virtuous Inquisition. I wanted a FULLY ICS. Im now running the latest version v3.0.0. Its freaking smooth no force to close. Almost everything worked how i wanted it.
I got 1 issue about it. Skype. The one i called he sees me in green. I dont know if its about the rom or Skype.
Also i discovered something while i was playing around on the homescreen.
When you swipe with two fingers to the right you get a small pop up "Got rotate! false" and when you swipe with two fingers to the left it says "Got rotate! true". I thought it was a shortcut to change the settings of rotation of the screen but it wasn't. So i was wondering what it does. I've searched on the forums and i didn't found anything about it.
Can't wait till a FULLY WORKING ICS ROM without any problems.
I too have rooted my Sensation and installed the following:
Virtuous Inquisition 3.0.
SebastianFM 1.5Ghz Kernel
The Sensation now actually lives up to its name! This thing really flies! I am elated to get rid of the Sense UI and really love the Nova launcher. Despite the increase in clock speed the battery life is actually quite good.
I have tried to replicate your two finger swipe anomaly but cannot. That being, said, perhaps it is related to live wallpaper? I use the Beautiful Widget live weather wallpaper and it is somewhat interactive in that you can move the clouds and sun around. So, if you have a live wallpaper installed, maybe it too is interactive and reporting back these messages? Just a guess....
I am hopeful that a fix for the incoming call not showing up on the lock screen will be fixed soon as this is annoying. Another minor issue I and others are experiencing is the contact ringtone assignment not taking affect.
Overall this ROM breathes new life into the sensation!
Dennis
I tried replicating the error on my Sensation 4G running Virtuous Inquisition v3.0.0 was unsuccessful.
Try flashing it again.
whutt said:
Hi guys,
I've been using roms a couple of years. I've never been posting or requesting on XDA.
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Whutt, Well done for doing what many xda members don't ( Read and learn ). You will do well in this community with that approach. I hope you enjoy owning the sensation
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First post fail!
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Uncalled for, and useless post!
koutsoures said:
I too have rooted my Sensation and installed the following:
Virtuous Inquisition 3.0.
SebastianFM 1.5Ghz Kernel
The Sensation now actually lives up to its name! This thing really flies! I am elated to get rid of the Sense UI and really love the Nova launcher. Despite the increase in clock speed the battery life is actually quite good.
I have tried to replicate your two finger swipe anomaly but cannot. That being, said, perhaps it is related to live wallpaper? I use the Beautiful Widget live weather wallpaper and it is somewhat interactive in that you can move the clouds and sun around. So, if you have a live wallpaper installed, maybe it too is interactive and reporting back these messages? Just a guess....
I am hopeful that a fix for the incoming call not showing up on the lock screen will be fixed soon as this is annoying. Another minor issue I and others are experiencing is the contact ringtone assignment not taking affect.
Overall this ROM breathes new life into the sensation!
Dennis
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I too have the 3.0.0 Virtuous Inquisition.
How stable is flashing the 1.5GHz kernel?
I remember it was quite unstable when I was on ARHD, has changes been made?
Personally the 1.5ghz kernel gave me a bunch of odd issues on this ROM. did a full wipe, standard 3.24 kernel linked on the ROM's page, and installed the newest version, zero issues. Reluctant to try the 1.5ghz again, not worth it imho. Maybe that's just my experience though.
Screenshots please? As for appearing green on Skype, this is the first time I've heard of such an issue.
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ladyhaly said:
Screenshots please? As for appearing green on Skype, this is the first time I've heard of such an issue.
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using xda premium
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Yep. same here, can't remember what ICS version though.
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Whutt, Well done for doing what many xda members don't ( Read and learn ). You will do well in this community with that approach. I hope you enjoy owning the sensation
Uncalled for, and useless post!
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Thank you! Defitnitly enjoying the sensation!
koutsoures said:
I too have rooted my Sensation and installed the following:
Virtuous Inquisition 3.0.
SebastianFM 1.5Ghz Kernel
The Sensation now actually lives up to its name! This thing really flies! I am elated to get rid of the Sense UI and really love the Nova launcher. Despite the increase in clock speed the battery life is actually quite good.
I have tried to replicate your two finger swipe anomaly but cannot. That being, said, perhaps it is related to live wallpaper? I use the Beautiful Widget live weather wallpaper and it is somewhat interactive in that you can move the clouds and sun around. So, if you have a live wallpaper installed, maybe it too is interactive and reporting back these messages? Just a guess....
I am hopeful that a fix for the incoming call not showing up on the lock screen will be fixed soon as this is annoying. Another minor issue I and others are experiencing is the contact ringtone assignment not taking affect.
Overall this ROM breathes new life into the sensation!
Dennis
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Yeah you might be right. i got a live wallpaper the stock one when you install virtuos. I will try it out tonight without Live wallpaper.
Thread cleaned. Some of those posts were very disappointing.
if you have nothing useful or helpful to say, don't bother posting.
I'm happy to hand out bans to trolls...
Hey I was able to replicate the "got rotate! True" and "got rotate! false" ...but that was "as far as I got! True"
To do it put two fingers on the screen like they're at 12 and 6 on a clock, then swipe clockwise/counterclockwise.
I have none of the issues mentioned... Having tried ARHD GB and ICS basedroms...I have to say I'm completely blown away by the quality/stability and performance of this rom.
I have a question to the VI users that flashed their roms with 1.5ghz...has stability and battery life suffered at all?
Thanks
I tried going through all the ics related topics here but couldnt really find an extensive hands-on review of the update. So if you could post what changes the new update brings, its pro's/ cons, how smooth or laggy it feels etc.
Would appreciate it.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
Hmm... I think there is no single review for it, but here and there, people have posted a lot about it.
No signs of it in India yet.... The wait is killing...
All i could gather from the topics is that the update has a lot of bugs. Heck im not even sure if this update was only meant for elevate members. The only thing i care about is sense 3.6 should not be resource heavy and ics should use the hardware of the sensation to its full extent. I love sense but 3.0 is a powerhog and im forced to use go launcher.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
kanav bhasin said:
I tried going through all the ics related topics here but couldnt really find an extensive hands-on review of the update. So if you could post what changes the new update brings, its pro's/ cons, how smooth or laggy it feels etc.
Would appreciate it.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
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kanav bhasin said:
All i could gather from the topics is that the update has a lot of bugs. Heck im not even sure if this update was only meant for elevate members. The only thing i care about is sense 3.6 should not be resource heavy and ics should use the hardware of the sensation to its full extent. I love sense but 3.0 is a powerhog and im forced to use go launcher.
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IMHO the update is very good. It improves a lot the overall performances and it is a pleasure to use the Sensation (I repeat overall...) as it has never been.
I've only found one really annoying bug: the default browser doesn't load directly a link from another app (eg. twitter), but it needs a second tap because the first one opens up the last visited page. So you need to exit fromthe broser and re-tap the desired link.
This becomes very annoying when you need to use google search...first try: latest visited page; exit browser + second try: search results.
This one and the few spelling mistakes here and there in some menus could have been the reason of the pre-release to the elevate members, to have them reported, then fix them and finally release a bug free update, but now that we know this is the final release I think these are ridiculous bugs.
I can only think they released the update even with these few errors because of the competition with samsung to be the first to give ICS to the customers...again: riduculous!
I hope they are aware of this and release a fix soon enough...
Thanks roland
So the default browser is trouble free but not so when visiting links from another app. Shouldnt bother me much. Though it is dissapointing to see htc make such mistakes, seems they didn't focus too much on testing. Im pretty sure itll be atleast a month before we see the update in india, hopefully all the bugs would be sorted by then.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
my htc cmes in india coz i have cid htc-038. but i live in philippines.. when the update comes in india i can get it also.. im thinking to root my phone using tacoroot.. but ill wait until the end of the month..
which is the best light, fast and smoothest rom available for htc chacha. stability and battery concerned.
I hate to blow my own trumpet but I'd recommend this one
^^what that guy said
I'll toot his horn too. I'm a new member of this forum, and just started using this guy's rom. Nice, fast, and free of a lot of pre-installed clutter. Also, easy to install.
briandl said:
I'll toot his horn too. I'm a new member of this forum, and just started using this guy's rom. Nice, fast, and free of a lot of pre-installed clutter. Also, easy to install.
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Thanks, glad you're enjoying the ROM
Just a couple of questions, so I hope you see this because I haven't posted ten times yet...
#1 no American or Canadian English setting (on initial setup, and under language settings)
#2 where's the Beats Audio?
Still love it, though. Noticeable difference in speed without background apps, and much better internal storage. Also, mildly improved battery life.
briandl said:
Just a couple of questions, so I hope you see this because I haven't posted ten times yet...
#1 no American or Canadian English setting (on initial setup, and under language settings)
#2 where's the Beats Audio?
Still love it, though. Noticeable difference in speed without background apps, and much better internal storage. Also, mildly improved battery life.
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It's based on the stock EU ROM, so no, there's no American or Canadian English. I could add them but it'd add to the size of the system or no real reason. I'm sure you can live with the Queen's English
The Beats Audio doesn't show up anywhere in the UI, it just works its magic in the background. I even notice a difference when I use it with my cheap £20 eBay headphones so I know it's working
If you've seen other ROMs with the Beats Audio showing up as a setting on the UI, that's probably because they have the Music app from ROMs of newer phones. I might see if I can get that ported to my ROM now, come to think of it. Thanks for that idea
P.S. to further improve battery life, go to your sound settings and turn off all the sensor based stuff if you haven't already, that makes quite a difference!
Hmmm...haven't noticed a difference with my 20 buck Panasonics, or in my car, though that's with an FM transmitter (a good one, though).
I guess I'll live with the Queen's English, though the patriotic side of me cringes, eh?...
Weird, maybe it depends on the music you listen to. Stuff with heavy bass sounds better at least
God save our gracious Queeeeen
I just tried to stick the /system/apps folder from a Sensation XE onto my ChaCha... The ChaCha didn't like it too much. I'll experiment more later, see what I can get working. Looking around the XE ROM, there's certainly stuff here which shows whether or not Beats is working in the actual UI, so I might add some of that in if it plays nice with the ChaCha.
Cool! Thanks for all your work. Is it possible to move these posts to your thread in the development forum, so others can see what's going on?
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Also, the facebook key doesn't work anymore. Can this be sorted out in an upcoming relase--is it possible to have the key open up the Tinfoil app?
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Cool! Thanks for all your work. Is it possible to move these posts to your thread in the development forum, so others can see what's going on?
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A moderator would have to do that, but yeah, mods if you're reading this, moving these posts into my Stock Plus thread would be helpful, cheers
Also, the facebook key doesn't work anymore. Can this be sorted out in an upcoming relase--is it possible to have the key open up the Tinfoil app?
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That's something else I'm looking into. I know it can be done, others have done it, I've just got to edit the right files in my ROM so it goes to Tinfoil.
I promise I'll start posting there once I cross this ten post threshold. I understand why they do it, and it clearly has an effect on the quality of the posts, but it's still annoying .
light weight rom
here is the finest rom with good set of apps... i have been using it for months now.... there is only one issue that it doesn't shutdown the phone... seems like there is some problem with the shutdown process... but it doesnt hurt because it's nothing that we usually use....
here is the url to the post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343636
thanks
I also use this ROM and I have no Problems with it.
Guys I have found another Rom that is super duper fast by hexgore.... I am personally using it without any glitches ... And the guy is still supporting it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690088
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CM7
Hey guy, im using CM7 ROM. if without-front camera is not a big problem for u, u can try it. This rom is light, stable and it have many setting option for u.
Im still wondering abt Dailer isssue in Hexgore ROM, but some people say it's not a problem to drain ur battery
PS: u also need to flash Google Service after u installed CM7 ROM for using Google App like Market, and flash Keyboard to correct some keys are mismatched in this ROM.
abc_x3 said:
Hey guy, im using CM7 ROM. if without-front camera is not a big problem for u, u can try it. This rom is light, stable and it have many setting option for u.
Im still wondering abt Dailer isssue in Hexgore ROM, but some people say it's not a problem to drain ur battery
PS: u also need to flash Google Service after u installed CM7 ROM for using Google App like Market, and flash Keyboard to correct some keys are mismatched in this ROM.
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To confirm, I am going to try and implement a fix to the dialler bug this week when I continue work on my ROM. My first priority is Aroma at the moment but it's on my list of things to do.
Hexgore said:
To confirm, I am going to try and implement a fix to the dialler bug this week when I continue work on my ROM. My first priority is Aroma at the moment but it's on my list of things to do.
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Glad to hear that. Ur ROM was my 1st ROM i installed after Root this device.
Original ROM is good for user who have less experience in Android or someone love Sense UI of HTC. CM7 is only good for Tech guys.
Stock ROM feel on CM7?
I have been using Chacha for almost half year now, and I like it to core. Have tried almost all ROMs so far. CWM's backup/restore functionality is pure bliss. At times when your hands are itchy, go ahead, mess up your system, do all your experiments. When done, just restore and you are back to your normal mood! Excellent!!
About the ROMs, I try them a lot, but finally do settle down to ROMs based on stock, as my daily ROMS. These are ROMS which I try my own with some experimental versions, or ones available here like from Hexgore . The reason is, there are quite a bunch of apps on Stock ROMS which are perfectly tuned for Chacha's small screen, and hence I find them more efficient than other alternative apps. Here are apps I find too good and difficult to part from.
Mail App
Dialer App
Messages App
I agree that there would be a lot better apps (like K9 for mail). But the easy of bigger icons, easy to tap organization of icons, just make be feel to stay with this mail app.
Now, coming to point, Will it be possible to get these apps work in non-Stock environment. Similar to Gapps package, if we can get to package these apps, it will be great.
I myself, will try these experiments one by one, and report my observations. But just would like to know if there are any like-minded people like me. Please comment. Thanks.
Sense crashes on me constantly. I tried the fix suggested where you go unclick the activities setting in the development area, to no avail. Can any Cleanrom users tell me if this is problem for you (AT&T) after you rooted and installed CR on your phone?
What do you mean by crashing? Is it force closing or just reloading (get the loading circle)
If its reloading its because of HTC setting aggressive memory management.
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I could have worded that better - I mean to say that HTC sense, on my vanilla AT&T rom, goes down a lot, and when you press the home button, it says "loading" for upwards of 20 seconds.
I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599214, however while this seems to fix it for some folks, it does not fix it for others. It's still happening to me, sadly.
I am considering returning this for a SGIII, but I got to wondering if I root it and install CleanRom, maybe that fixes the issue to, in addition to removing the AT&T bloat.
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I could have worded that better - I mean to say that HTC sense, on my vanilla AT&T rom, goes down a lot, and when you press the home button, it says "loading" for upwards of 20 seconds.
I followed the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599214, however while this seems to fix it for some folks, it does not fix it for others. It's still happening to me, sadly.
I am considering returning this for a SGIII, but I got to wondering if I root it and install CleanRom, maybe that fixes the issue to, in addition to removing the AT&T bloat.
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That would be the aggressive management that HTC put into the phone same reason that the browser reloads the page after you close it.
If you find a ROM that locks sense into the memory then it should solve that.
I only have the t3 hox so I can't recommend any for at&t
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bumping, in case some Cleanrom users can reply. I got really frustrated yesterday - set up my screens and launcher and folders all nice, just the way I like them, nad Sense reloaded - all of a sudden, the screens I had removed were back, my icons were all over the place, and my folders were not on the home screen. Super frustrating!
Hold on, it actually goes back to default layout after reloading as well?
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Hold on, it actually goes back to default layout after reloading as well?
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Almost - I had five screens again, my folders were all bumped to the last screen (so I had to move them back to the home screen before I could delete the extra screens), and a bunch of icons appeared out of nowhere, all over the place. So, it didn't go back to default but it did jack everything up.
It may be something that never comes up because most people do not remove all the extra screens.
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bumping, in case some Cleanrom users can reply. I got really frustrated yesterday - set up my screens and launcher and folders all nice, just the way I like them, nad Sense reloaded - all of a sudden, the screens I had removed were back, my icons were all over the place, and my folders were not on the home screen. Super frustrating!
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I doubt you're going to get many replies from CleanROM users over here, since you've posted this in the international (Tegra 3) subforums and CleanROM is for S4 devices so no-one here will be using it. You'd probably get a better response asking here (or you could maybe ask a mod to shift the thread for you).
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I doubt you're going to get many replies from CleanROM users over here, since you've posted this in the international (Tegra 3) subforums and CleanROM is for S4 devices so no-one here will be using it. You'd probably get a better response asking here (or you could maybe ask a mod to shift the thread for you).
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WHOOPS! Thank you for pointing it out to me!
Well hello Welcome to the correct forums xD
CleanROM has many multitasking improvements, from what I've read, so it should help quite a bit.
And if you still don't like the multitasking, AOSP based ROMs such as CM9 or AOKP have perfect multitasking (I've been able to get up to 7 apps running with AOKP)
CleanROM 4.1
Using the latest version of CleanROM on the AT&T One X, I have none of the issues that you speak of. Multitasking is night-and-day (granted that you flashed the multitasking mod in the AROMA installer), battery life is stellar, and everything is rock-solid stable.
I've never seen sense reload on me but I don't play games much. Are you a big gamer? I've been using clean rom since it was introduced.
I haven't had Sense reload on me once since flashing CleanROM a month and a half ago. I play a ton of RAM heavy games too like NOVA 3 and as I said, not once has it happened.
I mostly use the web on mine, Google Music, and a couple minor games like Words By Post and Temple Run. Thank you all for the replies, this makes me feel a bit more hopeful. I'm a bit anti-Samsung at the moment, so I am glad to hear that maybe flashing a ROM will fix my problems. I was pretty close to just returning it.
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I mostly use the web on mine, Google Music, and a couple minor games like Words By Post and Temple Run. Thank you all for the replies, this makes me feel a bit more hopeful. I'm a bit anti-Samsung at the moment, so I am glad to hear that maybe flashing a ROM will fix my problems. I was pretty close to just returning it.
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Trust me man, flash CleanROM and you will fall in love with your HOX. The ROM is amazing and the dev is awesome. It is the way HTC should have shipped these things.
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What do you think, what is enhanced, what is ruined?
For begining, I want to say that i love new Sense Keyboard.
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This should be put in sticky jb thread this is gonna be locked
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This should be put in sticky jb thread this is gonna be locked
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Sticky JB thread done its job...
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It's still doing its job and as the mods have stated over and over..any jb conversations go there don't start a New thread
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Caller photo quality is OK how but photo is still small. Have the same size as before...
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Has someone got VILLE C2 Jelly Bean Update????
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Has someone got VILLE C2 Jelly Bean Update????
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Thanks, dude, I couldn't see the other posts, they are so tiny, you are literally my savior
On topic: No, S3 users will probably get it 2-3 weeks later, maybe more.
I saw, that some users reported having a brick with SuperCID, is this true?
Because I don't want to change my CID back and stuff
Busybox
Hi
Just updated via OTA, reinstalled CWM_Recovery and installed superSU 0.99.
Phone is rooted once again but it seems like busybox is unable to install, tried a few different versions and none seem to stick, a few even causes a crash/reboot of the phone.
Have a few programs that are reliant on Busybox to function.
Am i the only one with this problem ?
I think the update is rubbish. If anything its not as smooth as the Ics update, project butter must be a vanilla only experience because there is no way it's buttery smooth
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I'm really annoyed about the new keyboard layout which was an utterly unnecessary change. Not to mention that the keyboard is somewhat laggy. Apart from that it's fine and I could live with it if I would get back full root functionality.
By the way, has anyone solved their root issues (SuperSU, Busybox, and a couple other apps and tools not working) yet?
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Hi
Just updated via OTA, reinstalled CWM_Recovery and installed superSU 0.99.
Phone is rooted once again but it seems like busybox is unable to install, tried a few different versions and none seem to stick, a few even causes a crash/reboot of the phone.
Have a few programs that are reliant on Busybox to function.
Am i the only one with this problem ?
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Nope I'm also having the same issues. After reading over the superSU thread it seems like HTC have done something to prevent system changes so it's basically a case of waiting until some devs find a work around
Is there an app to reorder the notifications in the notificationbar? I have 2 apps as trigger and new notifications are in the middle of these apps. I want new notifications at bottom.
Haven't got the update yet, but I'd like to know if they solved the touchbutton issue? And does USB OTG work now without extra cables? The only 2 things I'm missing.
Touch button issue is better so far but cannot say for sure that it is fixed, since now we have the Google now issue but not as frequently as before.
The new issue for me after the update is that the hands-free control is not customisable through apps after update, only single click function works for me, no track skipping or volume control
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The worst update I've made on any phone....ever!
I need to downgrade ASAP, however, because I'm a relative noob and I'm unrooted I need some assistance. Any advice will be appreciated.
Just installed and had 10 minutes with it. To me my phone definitely seems a little quicker and more responsive, might just be me being excited about new stuff though! I use Swiftkey so never touch the Sense keyboard, I just gave the new one a quick go and switched back to Swiftkey, I can type on it almost as quick as a real keyboard so it would take something amazing to shift me from it. I like what I see of Google Now so far, we'll see how it pans out though. The camera changes seem good, fairly subtle differences but I think it's quicker too. I like the power saver mode, think that will be a useful one. Switching off data when the screen is off is a great feature.
So far, so good.
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Just installed and had 10 minutes with it. To me my phone definitely seems a little quicker and more responsive, might just be me being excited about new stuff though! I use Swiftkey so never touch the Sense keyboard, I just gave the new one a quick go and switched back to Swiftkey, I can type on it almost as quick as a real keyboard so it would take something amazing to shift me from it. I like what I see of Google Now so far, we'll see how it pans out though. The camera changes seem good, fairly subtle differences but I think it's quicker too. I like the power saver mode, think that will be a useful one. Switching off data when the screen is off is a great feature.
So far, so good.
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Which processor do you have? S3 or S4? And have you played any games on it? Subway Surfer was quite quick and smooth on ICS, with Jellybean it's like a buffering movie on one of them crappy Chinese servers....
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Which processor do you have? S3 or S4? And have you played any games on it? Subway Surfer was quite quick and smooth on ICS, with Jellybean it's like a buffering movie on one of them crappy Chinese servers....
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I noticed that! Subway surfer was laggy on the JB update. Restored my ICS rom and it's smooth as butter. WTF! And it's bound to be s4 because the s3 doesn't have it yet
I am pretty fond of the new No-Lockscreen option. Something I have missed from the AOSP versions, probably the only reason I will stick with sense on JB.
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Just installed and had 10 minutes with it. To me my phone definitely seems a little quicker and more responsive, might just be me being excited about new stuff though! I use Swiftkey so never touch the Sense keyboard, I just gave the new one a quick go and switched back to Swiftkey, I can type on it almost as quick as a real keyboard so it would take something amazing to shift me from it. I like what I see of Google Now so far, we'll see how it pans out though. The camera changes seem good, fairly subtle differences but I think it's quicker too. I like the power saver mode, think that will be a useful one. Switching off data when the screen is off is a great feature.
So far, so good.
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Not sure, but since data is off while screen off, how come I receive my whatsapp messages, emails n stuff? I am just curious, since I read about power saver a while ago in One X forum, but forgot that and you reminded it to me.
P.s: I have power saver on since the update
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